Sliding hay-door.



Patented Apr. 24, 1917.

T.. J. SIMONS.

SLDING HAY DOOR. APPL1cAT1oN FILED 11116.11, 1915.

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sLlDING HAY DOOR.

APPLICATION FILED AUGJI, I9I5.

1v, 528. I Y Patented Apr. 24, 191;?.

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l rirnonoian JOHN sIMoNs, or yrLasKINs, IoWA.A

' Specificationof Letters Patent.

sLrDING HAY-Doon.

applicati@ niedvaugust 11, .1915.l serial No. 45,004.

` To all whom it may concern gBe' "t known that I, THEoDonE J oHN SrMoNs, a ,citizenA ofthe United States, residing at Haskins, in the county of Wash ington and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful lImprovements, in Sliding I-IayDoors, of which the following is a specification.

Myfinvention relates to an improvement in .sliding hay-doors, the object being toprovide a. door which operates on an inclined j track moreor less by gravity, andis counterg weighted to v facilitate moving back kand forth. ,s

In the accompanying drawings:

" Figure l'is aviewviny elevation showing thedoors'partly open, and operating mechanism partly exposed; l

Fig. 2 is a similar view on a large scale partly in section;

Fig'v is a fragmentary view of one of the' guida/hangers,

Fig.k 4 1s a plan view of oneend of the,

guide hanger;

and

ley employed. n 4

A, A, represent the two doors for closing the opening 1 in the barn-gable. Inclined tracks 2, 2, are secured outside the rafters 3, 3, to be out of the way.` Y

Two guide-hangers, preferably, are secured to the upper inclined edge of each door, as shown in Fig. `1. 4These guidehangers comprise a frame 4, as shown in Fig. 3, and two grooved rollers 5, 5, and the shank 6 at the center'is bolted to the door as at 7, 7. A Vswivel 8 at' one endof the frame 4 has the cable ,9. `attached to it, and thisfcable passesoverthe upper pulley '10,

located approximately 'at the point of the gable, and the cable thence passes downward inside the rafter, and thence overy thepulley 11,-and has a weight 12 on its lower end.

` A guard 13, preferably made of gas pipe or other tubular material, is secured at its ends on the` twoi supporting-irons 14,` `14,

` secured tothe barmand between the surface (lobtes'ot this patent maybe obtained for Fig. is a detail of one form of pulley;-l Fig.y Gis a detail of another form kofipulf` of whichand the guard 13 the doors are slid, the irons 14, 14, serving as stops when the doors are slid open.

- Patentedapr. 24, 1917.y

' In this way I have provided a very simple .means for opening and closing a door-way located at the gable of a barn, utilizing theI inclination of the gable rafters to form supl A door of this kind-is easily .applied to any barn havinga gable-roof, or 1n fact any sloping roof, as itl is evident that a single door instead of two might be used if the roof had but one slope instead of a double slope,'and it is equally evident that the door could be operated, as shown, from the floor onwhich the door or doors are located, or from any fioor below, by simply extending the cables 9 which control the door.

I claim:

The combination of an inclined track, a door, a guide hanger comprisinga frame and grooved rollers mountedy diagonally upon said track and provided with a vertically kdisposed shankV secured to the door, four pulleys, one located at each end of the track,

fthe third pulley adjacent to the lower end lof the track, the fourth pulley at some point `below said last mentioned pulley, a cable secured at one end to the guide hanger and rove over the four pulleys, and a weight to which one end ofthe cable is secured and with which another portion of the cable is connected.

In testimony whereof I alix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

'II-IEODORE JOHN SIMONS.

Witnesses:

SGHUYLER lW. LIVINGSTON,

T. B. SIMoNs.

ive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patenti, `Washington, D. C. 

